Backbone Quote by Rick Bayan

The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool…

— Joel Bakan

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

— John Marshall

Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders… At the very bottom of command, if…

— Noam Chomsky

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

— Wendell Berry

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

— Henry Mintzberg

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

— Daniel Suarez

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social…

— Tibor Kalman

“[A corporation is] a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and…

— Jonathan Haidt

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are…

— Tony Gilroy

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the…

— Anonymous

A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.

— Evan Esar

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch…

— Keith Olbermann